New SATA drive not "seen" P4PE

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I have a P4PE with SATA connectors. I have installed a new Hitachi
120GB hdd and have tried to have it recognized by enabling the SATA/RAID
controller and enabling ATA onboard first options but to no avail. On
POST the Primary drive reports None. The drive is a mirror of an IDE
drive and is replete with OS and files. I can "see" that these files
are all there when I have gone into Win2000 Command Console but I cannot
get the drive to boot, presumably because it is not recognized.

Before I go further, I would like to know if there are any other BIOS
settings that I need to tweak. For example, does it do anything to a
SATA drive if I define the Primary Hard drive specs (cylinders, etc.)
or does that only pertain to the hdd on the Primary IDE connector?

Thanks
Ken K
 
you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make
a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA
drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the
floppy at the appropriate time
 
Paul said:
you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make
a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA
drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the
floppy at the appropriate time
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Paul,

I am using Win2000. I have the driver disk and installed it at F6 when
the appropriate time was indicated during the setup. The disk was read,
I was then asked if there were additional drivers that needed to be
installed, which there were not, and I completed the repair. On boot,
the drive is still not recognized. I can boot with a floppy that has
the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files but with those same files on
the hdd, the OS will not load. I am wondering why the disk is not
recognized by BIOS on boot... I have tried it as a single disk RAID0
and it is recognized by the Promise controller BIOS, but no boot.

Very confusing to me... Any other thoughts?

Thanks
Ken K
 
Did you make a partition on the drive ??

Windows needs a partition to see the drive.
 
The drive is a mirrored drive. It has identical partitions with c:, d:,
and e: drives like the identical drive. My understanding is that its
structure should be identican to the origina drive. Once the floppy
points it to the c: drive, all goes well. I just can't figure out what
is missing in either the BIOS settings or on the drive that the
identical files on the hdd aren't found and there needs to be a floppy
to point to the c: drive.

Thanks
Ken
 
RaiderNation said:
Did you make a partition on the drive ??

Windows needs a partition to see the drive.
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the raid drivers are on the mother board driver cd you need to copy the raid
driver for windows
2000 to a disk and use that disk when asked for any special drivers .
 
William said:
the raid drivers are on the mother board driver cd you need to copy the raid
driver for windows
2000 to a disk and use that disk when asked for any special drivers .
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Yes, that is what I had thought that I had explained above....
 
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